Ron Paul, NUT, BIGOT, or BOTH

Whenever I post something negative about Ron Paul (which is every time I post about him), I get the NASTIEST comments and emails. He doesn’t have a lot of supporters but those that do support him do so with a passion. On one hand that makes me happy, after all people should have some passion. The problem is Ron Paul is a “drooling crazy ” type. This guy must have of fallen out the Bigot tree and hit every branch on the way down

For those of you that can remember life before the internet, you might also remember that people used to publish Newsletters on all topics. Forty years ago, Paul entered the Conservative Newsletter business. As described in the New Republic:

With the pages of mainstream political magazines typically off-limits to their views (National Review editor William F. Buckley having famously denounced the John Birch Society), hardline conservatives resorted to putting out their own, less glossy publications. These were often paranoid and rambling–dominated by talk of international banking conspiracies, the Trilateral Commission’s plans for world government, and warnings about coming Armageddon–but some of them had wide and devoted audiences. And a few of the most prominent bore the name of Ron Paul. Paul’s newsletters have carried different titles over the years–Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, TheRon Paul Survival Report–but they generally seem to have been published on a monthly basis since at least 1978.

The Newsletters published before 1999 have all but disappeared, that is till James Kirchick of the New Republic tracked them down. Most of the newsletters had no byline so they were hard to know whether Paul wrote them or they were ghost-written.

Some of the earlier newsletters are signed by him, though the vast majority of the editions I saw contain no bylines at all. ….. many of the unbylined newsletters were written in the first person, implying that Paul was the author.But, whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul’s name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him–and reflected his views.

And what a litany of hatred was found in his writings:

Take, for instance, a special issue of the Ron Paul Political Report, published in June 1992, dedicated to explaining the Los Angeles riots of that year. “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began,” read one typical passage. According to the newsletter, the looting was a natural byproduct of government indulging the black community with “‘civil rights,’ quotas, mandated hiring preferences, set-asides for government contracts, gerrymandered voting districts, black bureaucracies, black mayors, black curricula in schools, black tv shows, black tv anchors, hate crime laws, and public humiliation for anyone who dares question the black agenda.” It also denounced “the media” for believing that “America’s number one need is an unlimited white checking account for underclass blacks.”

As early as December 1989, a section of Paul’s Investment Letter,titled “What To Expect for the 1990s,” predicted that “Racial Violence Will Fill Our Cities” because “mostly black welfare recipients will feel justified in stealing from mostly white ‘haves.'” …

In June 1991, an entry on racial disturbances in Washington, DC’s Adams Morgan neighborhood was titled, “Animals Take Over the D.C. Zoo.”…

Martin Luther King Jr. earned special ire from Paul’s newsletters, which attacked the civil rights leader frequently, often to justify opposition to the federal holiday named after him. (“What an infamy Ronald Reagan approved it!” one newsletter complained in 1990. “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”) In the early 1990s, a newsletter attacked the “X-Rated Martin Luther King” as a “world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” “seduced underage girls and boys,” and “made a pass at” fellow civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy….

…..The rhetoric when it came to Jews was little better. The newsletters display an obsession with Israel; no other country is mentioned more often in the editions I saw, or with more vitriol. A 1987 issue of Paul’s Investment Letter called Israel “an aggressive, national socialist state,” and a 1990 newsletter discussed the “tens of thousands of well-placed friends of Israel in all countries who are willing to wok [sic] for the Mossad in their area of expertise.” Of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, a newsletter said, “Whether it was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.”

Folks, this is just the tip of the iceberg I am usually not a big supporter of the New Republic, but this article is a MUST READ. Click here to read the entire article. Angry White Man

My friend Spree just gave me the link for the actual PDFs of the Newsletters..click here to read them. And while you are at it make sure to go to Spree’s wonderful site Wake Up America and say thanks.

Oh and for you Ron Paul supporters who are about to send me nasty posts telling me that Paul was mis quoted, one incident can be explained away, but the SHEER VOLUME OF HATRED spewed by this nut job is impossible to ignore, so save your bandwith because I hate to see you humiliate yourselves in public.

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